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This Government continues its trend to resembling something akin to Liz Truss's rule of England. And Health is clearly among its targets. You can determine this by the level of its propaganda. In the past week the Government has replaced the board of Health New…
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I posted recently about the abuse in care report and how the release of the report jarred with National's recent opening of a new boot camp facility. This made me reflect on the history of National's fascination with boot camps. And a quick trawl through…
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It has emerged that National has sneakily reduced child poverty targets. Without any publicity it has posted this Gazette Notice changing three intermediate targets under the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018. For the next year the figure for less than 50% of median equivalised Disposable…
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Yesterday the Royal Commission's report into abuse in care was released. The timing for the Government is unfortunate. Because the report makes a compelling case to suggest that boot camps do not work. Part of the report deals with the Whakapakiri Camp, a form of…
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Twenty years’ ago the then leader of the conservative New Zealand National Party, Don Brash, got into hot water when a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) official reported that he had assured a visiting delegation from the US Senate that if his party…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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By the time Christopher Luxon and Shane Reti fronted the waiting media throng to announce the disbanding of the Health NZ board, they were already down 5 of the original 7 Directors. I wrote about it here, but the upshot of it is that a…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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from RNZ US President Joe Biden dropped his faltering re-election bid on Sunday, amid intensifying opposition within his own Democratic Party, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the party's candidate against Republican Donald Trump. Biden, 81, in a post on X said he…
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